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PUBLICATIONS
On the New Zealand Marist website, (Marist Library): Maristica Publications
Jean-Claude
Colin (Founder of the Marist Fathers)
JEAN-CLAUDE
COLIN MARIST
A
founder in an era of revolution and restoration: the early
years 1790-1836
Donal Kerr
Jean-Claude Colin
grew up in the shadow of the French Revolution. His father
sheltered the local priest and had to hide in the woods of
Beaujolais while his mother and her young family suffered
continuous police harassment. Both father and mother died
before the boy was five years old. More than a decade later,
the police arrested jean-Claude believing that, like his fellow-sminarian,
Jean Vianney, later the Cure of Ars, he was dodging the draft
for Napoleon's Spanish wars. Later again, angry Bonaparatist
mobs threatened the seminary in Lyon where he was studying.
Only the arrival of Austrian and Piedmontese armies restored
order. Jean-Claude was ordained a year after the battle of
Waterloo, when a long period of Restoration in Church and
state began. He had grasped, however, that a new world had
begun and a new approach, not restoration, was what was needed.
With a group of
twelve young men - he pledged himself to found a new religious
congregation. Like the Society of Jesus in the age of Renaissance
and Reformation, this new society, while taking its name and
spirit from the Virgin Mary, would address the problems of
the post-Revolutionary world. In 1836 Pope Gregory XVl asked
Jean-Claude to undertake missions to the vast area of the
South Pacific from New Zealand to the Marshall Islands, from
New Guinea to Tonga and beyond. His ready aceptance brought
papal approbation for the priests' branch of the Society of
Mary and propelled it and Colin on to the wider world stage.
Donal Kerr (1927-2001)
an Irish Marist priest, was professor of Ecclesiastical history
at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. He is the author of Peel,
Priests, and Politics: Sir Robert Peel's Administration and
the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, 1842-1846,(Oxford
University Press, 1982); 'A Nation of Beggars'? Priests,
People and Politics in Famine Ireland, 1846-1852, (Osford
University press, 1994); The Catholic Church and the Famine,(Columba,1996)
Like Mary
Towards
Christian Maturity in the twenty-first century
Fritz
Arnold
In this
book Fr. Arnold looks not so much at Mary but along
with her, in the same direction. He starts by tracing,
from the biblical texts, the important stages of Mary's life
from the annunciation and birth of Jesus, through his public
ministry, to the cross and resurrection. He suggests that
each Christian is called to become receptive to God as Mary
was, in silence and prayer, and to learn from her how to bring
Christ to other people and allow their relationship with Christ
to bear fruit in everyday life. This includes looking at the
passion experience of Christ and Mary and finding there a
reflection on the painful transformation processes which we
as Christians have to go through, like John of the Cross's
Dark Night of the Soul.
A third
stage shows how this process of growth can develop within
the community of believers, the church. Examples from history
show that, in order to grow both internally and externally,
the church had to go through painful processes of transformation
and suffering. The author is deeply convinced that this is
what is happening today, and his hope is that in this way
we will come to new life.
The final
chapter is a concluding meditation on the theme of the book
by means of contemplation of the image of Mary, Salus Populi
Romani,in St. Mary Major's Basilica in Rome, which is
illustrated on the front cover.
Fritz
Arnold sm, based in Rome, is Vicar General of the Marist Fathers.
THE MARIST LAITY
THE
MARIST LAITY
A Basic
Guide
This
leaflet is an outline guide for individuals and groups who
are Marist according to the spirituality lived in the Society
of Mary. The name Marist is a family name belonging to a great
variety of groups: the four religius congregations: Marists
Brothers, Marist Sisters, Missionary Sisters of the Society
of Mary, Marist Fathers and Marist Laity.
A Certain Way
A
CERTAIN WAY
An
exploration of Marist spirituality
"There
is a certain way of living the Gospel that has never ceased
to attract me: the way Mary lived it, as understood by a group
of people called Marists. This is the story of those men and
women who last century committed themselves to what they called
'The Work of Mary', and began a movement which still thrives
today. It is also the story of what makes today's Marists
think, judge and act".(Craig Larkin).
Like a Bridge
LIKE
A BRIDGE
The
People of God and the Work of Mary
Laurence
Duffy and Charles Girard
This
book is addressed to everyone interested in the Marist spirit
and in the way people live it, thus to the general public
and particularly to those Marists living in "secular society",
as well as to Marist religious, those Sisters, Brothers and
Fathers who share with them the spirit of Mary. (page
viii).
....Ever
Your Poor Brother
...EVER
YOUR POOR BROTHER
Peter
Chanel:
Surviving letters
and Futuna Journal
Texts
translated and presented by William Joseph Stuart &
Anthony Ward.
This
work presents in a careful English translation the greater
part of the surviving writings of St. Peter Chanel (1803-1841),
a priest of the French diocese of Belley, then one of the
founding members of the Society of Mary. In 1836 he set sail
with the first band of Catholic missionaries to begin the
evangelization of Western Oceania. After four years of frustating
work among the people of the Polynesian island of Futuna,
he was martyred in 1841. His letters and journal not only
show Chanel as an engaging and dedicated young man, but also
piece together a fascinating picture of life in what Europeans
saw as a tropical paradise, at the period of the first sustained
contacts between Europeans and the local people.
The Heart that knows no Bounds
THE
HEART THAT KNOWS NO BOUNDS
The
Story of St. Marcellin Champagnat 1789-1840
Ned
Prendergast
'The
Heart That Knows No Bounds' is the story of a young boy born
in troubled times and without the advantage of an education
who dreamed as a teenager of becoming a priest and who dedicated
his life subsequently to the establishment of a congregation
of teaching brothers who would give to hundreds of thousands
throughout the world the educational advantages he himself
did not have. It is the story of a young heart that knew no
bounds and of improbable achievement against insuperable odds.
It is the story not so much of a born saint as of an unlikely
lad who grew to become one.
Ned
Prendergast is a teacher at Marian College, Ballsbridge, Dublin.
The Irish Province of the Marists
THE IRISH PROVINCE OF THE MARISTS
AN
EARLY HISTORY 1850-1870
A
Provisional Sketch
Patrick A.
Corcoran
"These
early years and the men who made them have a very special
quality. It is the era of the pioneers, and the exploration
of frontiers."(Foreword)
A Short History of the Society of Mary
A
Short History of the Society of Mary
1854
to 1993
Philip
Graystone
Jean
Coste's Lectures on Society of Mary History,published
in 1965, were originally planned to cover the history of the
Society up to 1961, but they stopped at 1854. The need for
an overall survey of the Society's history has long been felt
and is now filled by Father Philop Greystone, former provincial
of England. This small volume is a brief history of the Society
of Mary from 1854, when Julien Favre became its second Superior
General, until 1993, when the present General, Joaquin Fernandez,
commenced his term of office.
The Age of Mary
The
Age of Mary
Maristica
1
Jan
Snijders
The
Age of Mary by Jan Snijders takes up the themes of; Creative
Fidelity, The End of Time- the Present Age, Instruments of
Divine Mercy, Hidden and Unknown, A Tree with many Branches
and God Alone.
A Book of Texts
a
book of texts
for
the study of marist spirituality
Edwin
Keel.
a
book of texts - for the study of marist spirituality by
Edwin Keel is a collection of English translations of texts,
structured around the three symbolic moments of Fourviere,
Cerdon and Bugey, which the Constitutions of 1988 offer as
the framework for Marist Life. It is for the reader to meet
Colin and ther other founders and early Marists in their own
words, and to let those words open up new paths of insight,
of feeling and of action.
The Marist Laity
THE
MARIST LAITY
Finding
the Way Envisaged by Father Colin, Maristica 4.
Frank
McKay
Frank
McKay THE MARIST LAITY, Finding the Way Envisaged by Father
Colinbegins by giving an Historical Overview in the first
chapter. In successive chapters he considers the Vision, Principals
for Action and Strategies for the development of the Marist
Laity in line with that envisaged by Father Colin.
Lay Marists
LAY
MARISTS
Anthology
of Historical Sources
Charles
Girard
Charles
Girard's,Lay Marists, Anthology of Historical Sources,published
in 1993, is a collection of documents on the origins and early
development of the lay branch of the Marist project. It is
for the use of all those who would like to study its spirit
and history. The texts have been selected to illustrate the
thought of Jean-Claude Colin on the laity within the Society
of Mary.
For
copies of any of the above publications contact your nearest Marist Community or An
Turas
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